Linking Psychopathy and School Aggression in a Nonclinical Sample of Adolescents

Journal of School Violence

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 377-395

  Gumpel, Thomas P ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

aggression; aggressive victim; psychopathy; pure aggressor; school violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905395789     PISSN: 15388220     EISSN: 15388239     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15388220.2014.889605     Document Type: Article

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